I was so pleased with how well these three "unloaded" at the side of the bottom Carmel road. Rope leads on the girls and his lordship already on his retractable and head collar in the van. To be honest, they were better behaved than my lovable loonies.
After we got through the top gate, I took this photo and then clocked a sheep on the track, first time I've ever seen one there! So everyone on their leads, but it really didn't go well, instead of running ahead or even past us, it ran across the track from side to side ramming into the gates. I had the girls in my left hand and Zeus in my right hand. Zeus completely lost the plot, his prey drive pushed to the edge ... and Meerah naturally started to join in. I just couldn't get past safely, I was struggling to hold Zeus and considered that if I dropped him or fell and dropped any of the leads that I would be in trouble, so I turned back. Hell it didn't matter too much I don't suppose as the girls could go back off the lead once I'd gone through the top gate, but I was disappointed.
I went back down over the little bridge and was intending on going left to the van, but I looked right and thought, "yeah, let's look down there." I'd looked down towards it once before and asked someone who was by the house where the path came out, he said, "Don't know, don't live here." Today we went, it was pretty, but muddy and slippery and very quickly I became unsure if I carried on I was going to come out onto someone's property, so we turned back. Ah well, an extra 10-15 mins to the walk and now I know!
